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The final program of the BSO’s cycle featured Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9, and like the two others I attended, the house was ...

We’re ready for more from the 39 year-old composer. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 was still “Pastoral” but it had a fresh and stirring velocity. No longer did the music evoke lounging by the ...

Abbado has been in semi-permanent revolt against the Italian school of Beethoven interpretation. In these vibrant Rome performances he achieves an intensity of effect his hero Furtwängler just might ...

Riccardo Chailly’s first recorded Beethoven cycle shows him to be a Classicist through and through. This is no ... Second Symphony is almost as good. There is a fine account of the Fourth Symphony, ...